Time-alarm.



No. 889,928. 1 PATENTED JUNE 9, 1908. G. HOGAN.

TIME ALARM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 16,1 907.

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GEORGE HOGAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TIME-ALARM.

Specificationof' Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1908.

Application filed November 16, 1907. Serial No. 102,550.

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HOGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago. in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Time-Alarm,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to alarms ,for waking a person out ofsleep, and the ob'ects of my invention are, first, to have an alarm sound at a redetermined time and the action of the a arm to open a valve which will permit water to flow on the person sleeping. second, to provide a perforated hose to direct water to the neck of a person; third to arrange mechanism whereby the alarm can be used alone; fourth, to make a device which will wake any person; fifth, to make a simple, cheap and durable device and other objects to become apparent from the description to follow:

Heretofore many devices have been used for waking persons out of sleep but. as far as I am aware they wake the erson with a shock or fail to wake them al ogether. By the use of my. invention the erson is awakenhock of any kind whatever. I

The device consists ofplacinga perforated hose about the neck of the person and having the end of the hose connected to a cup of water located on an'elevated shelf so-thai valve which is normally clos'ed'controls the flow of water from-the cup into the hose. The valve is opened by the action of an alarm clock or any other time alarm, for convenience I have shown an alarm clockin connection with the device.

To describe my inventlonso that others versed in the mm which 1t ertain's can make anduse the same, I have illustrated it on the accompanying sheet of drawing in which:

Figure 1, is a top plan view of a device embodying my invention; Fig. 2, 1s a side elevation of the same and Fig. 3, is a section 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

pon the base board 4, is mounted a vertical tube 5 provided with the valve 6 and having the on 7 connected to its upper end.

The lower en of tube 5 extends through the board 4 and has connected thereto one end of the hose 8 which has its remaining endformed with a slip loop to fit about-the neck of a person. The loop portion of the hose is provided Withthe small perforations 92.

The valve 6 is extended outinto the stem 10 which has on-its extremity the arm 11 extending at right angle thereto. A rock shaft 12 is mounted in bearings 13 close to the valve 6 and has mounted" on one of its ends an arm 1.4 and on the reinalning end a catch- 15. A spring 16 is provided to normally catch 15 will be in the arm 11 and willhold said arm'in its operated position. The valve stem '10 has a spring 17 connected to it which normally turns the valve to an open position with the arm 11 resting against the adjustable stop' 18, which is made in the form of a screw, threaded in a bracket 19'and provided with a lock nut-20.

The shaft .12 is prevented' from being turned too far by the action of spring 16, by

rock the shaft 12 in such position that the path of the end of the the arm 14 contacting with the stop 21 ivotally secured to the board 4. The free end of the arm 14 is in the path of a lever 22 secured to the windingstem 23 of the alarm spring of a clock 24.- V

In operation the loop of the hose is placed about the neck of the person; the: arm 11 ismoved arounduntil its free end is caught and J retained by the catch 15; water is placed into the cup 7 and the clock alarm is set for the desired time in the usual manner. At the. appointed time the clock alarm'willsound, the windin stem turning in a reverse direction, i. e. c ockwise asviewed in Fig. 2 ;v the lever 22 will contact with and move the arm from the end of the arm-11; the spring 17 11 a sufiicient distance to release the catch 15 will then turn the valve 6 to an open position and the water from the cup 7 will flow through the hose 8 and out of th'eperforations 9. The lever 22 after moving the arm 11 will continue in its movement until it comes to stop against the bracket 25- pivot ally secured to t e board .4.

When it is desiredto use the alarm on the clock alone/the stop 21 and the bracket 25 are'moved'to the positions shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, to be out of; the path'of their coiliperating parts.

aving' thus fully described my invent on what I claim as new and desire to'secure. byv

Letters Patent of the United States is:

15 In a devic'eof the class described, a recepta'cle for water, ahose communicatively connected to said receptacle .a portion of said hose providedwith perforations and arprovided with control the flow a catch to hold said valve closed against the ranged to be fastened about the limb of a person, a valve to control the flow of water through said hose and a clock-movement mechanism to control the opening of said Valve.

2. In a device of the class described a hose avalve normally held open by a spring to of Water through said hose,

tension of said spring, a clock Work mechanism to trip said catch and a loop 011 said hose perforations arranged to be placed about a limb of a person.

- 3. In a device of the class described, a hose adapted to be fastened to the j user, and having perforations a water receptacle for supplylng to the Water,

Water to said hose, trol of a tlme movement for person of the giving escape and means under the conadnnttl'ng the Water to the hose.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing Witnesses this 11th day of N ovvernber 1907 Witnesses:

at Chicago, Illinois.

GEORGE HOGAN.

R. J. JA ER, MILTON lJENORE. 

